To Sparkle or Not To Sparkle, That is the Vampire's Conundrum

[RayvenQ]

All well and fine, but isn't the point of a werewolf to be half-man, half-wolf, traditionally? There are some mythos where they can be full man, full wolf, and then a hybrid, too, but it's very rare that it's simply full man and full wolf as the shapes they have. I see it as just another perversion on Meyer's part of the natural monster order.

Actually, originally the original werewolf myths were men who turned entirely into wolves and had only those two states that they could be in. By Tradition, and the original myths, half man half wolf is the oddity, but modern ideas have changed the mythos. It's only recently, in the last century or so that an anthropomorphic half man-half wolf has become the idea of the myth. IN the original myth, being bitten wasn't the only way to be turned into one. Though I doubt the speed of the transformation in th eoriginal myth is that fast.

Take the Vampire Myhtos for example, The possible Original Vampire myth was Lillith, who was a dmeonic sucubi who fed on the blood of men, then there's Lamia and Lamiae, serpentine demons who sucked blood. Compare that to the modern vampire myths, Dracula for instance and how radically different they are.

[Broomjockey]

By Tradition, and the original myths, half man half wolf is the oddity, but modern ideas have changed the mythos. It's only recently, in the last century or so that an anthropomorphic half man-half wolf has become the idea of the myth.

Hmm, I must broaden my research. The majority I've seen has it hybrid, though it only goes back to the late 1800s, which puts it right in your timeframe of the change.

[RayvenQ]

Doesn't suprise me that it was around then, knowing them, it's probably Victorians that are responsible for bringing it around to a hybrid form.

[depechemodefan]

Most of the vampire folktales don't have sunlight killing vampires. Fact is, I cna't think of any folktale having vampires dispatch by sunlight (though my memory is hazy). Dracula (from the novel by Bran Stoker) doesn't burst into flames in sunlight (he's just weaker).

I don't have a problem with sunlight not hurting Twilight vampires. Heck, Anne Rice vampires have no problem touching religous aritcles. Granted, when she started to write, she didn't believe in God, though by the 5th book she did. It went down-hill from there. The Blackwood Farm book had one char. turn into a vampire by sucking blood from a hermaphrodite's penis...maybe just as disturbing as Edward wanting Bella have an abortion and get knocked up by Jacob.

As speaking of knocking up, I have read a few folktales about women being pregnant from a vampire. Usually it's the undead husband who doesn't know when to go away.

[Broomjockey]

Most of the vampire folktales don't have sunlight killing vampires. Fact is, I cna't think of any folktale having vampires dispatch by sunlight (though my memory is hazy).

No, but it *does* weaken them to the point of they really don't like to go out in it. Running water, though? That's a bitch of a thing for them.

[Amina516]

I just figured Id keep posting random Twilight related pages I stumbleupon, on here for your amusement.

Too damn funny

Pants.

[NightAngel]

Pants.

Wow, pretty much hits the nail on the head.

[Jack T. Chance]

I've posted these elsewhere, but they also belong in this thread...

Here's a few demotivational posters for directed at the Twilight fans... click 'em to make 'em bigger...

[Lace Neil Singer]

I love the Blade one.

[RayvenQ]

I've got a motivational one stuck in my head.

Meyers: This is blasphemy, this is madness
Leonida: Madness?...NO MORE SPARKLES! *Kicks Meyers into the bit of doom*

[Jack T. Chance]

I love the Blade one.

Here's one I've just created, yet another sentiment for directed at fans of Twilight...



The image is stretched and distorted all to hell because the demotivational poster generator I normally use kept cropping off too much of the image, so I had to use an alternate one.

[Green_Fairy]

so yanno how a bunch of the series takes place in a forest? another movie took place in a forest...